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Title: SHADOWS & MOONSHINE
By: Joan Aiken, Pamela Johnson (Illus)
Format: Paperback

List price: £9.99


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ISBN 10: 1567923461
ISBN 13: 9781567923469
Publisher: DAVID R. GODINE PUBLISHER INC
Pub. date: 1 June, 2008
Synopsis: The prose of Joan Aiken, her uncanny ability to tell a great story in language that is classically beautiful, her fascinating characters, riveting dialogue, and compelling action, should be better appreciated. Like her father, Conrad Aiken, she is adept at a number of forms but is a master of the short story. In this fetching collection of what she herself considers thirteen of her best tales, she can be scary (everyone knows her fascination with wolves and witches) and poetic (as in Moonshine in the Mustard Pot or The Lilac in the Lake). But whatever she sets her hand to, it reads like the work of a master. And set against the lovely and luminous pencil drawings of Pamela Johnson, we have a a baker's dozen of magical tales that will stay with readers long after the last page is turned and the lights turned out.
US Grade: From Fourth Grade to Seventh Grade
Illustrations: black & white illustrations
Publication: US
Imprint: David R. Godine Publisher Inc
Returns: Returnable
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